RATIONAL INTERPOLATION OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PREDICTORS IN STOCHASTIC LANGUAGE MODELING

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2731-2734

  Schukat Talamazzini, Ernst Gunter ^a   Gallwitz, Florian ^b   Harbeck, Stefan ^b   Warnke, Volker ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTERPOLATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LANGUAGE MODEL; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; MODEL-BASED OPC; N-GRAM STATISTICS; N-GRAMS; RATIONAL INTERPOLATION; STOCHASTIC LANGUAGE MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0345568810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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